U.S History

Introduction

As you know, the year is 2016; what you don’t know is that America needs your help. Another country is questioning the authority of America and has turned some of the States against the government. It is up to you to review USA’s history and remind the people what it is the USA stands for. Complete these tasks to allow all people of the United States understand what it is we stand for.

 

Task

Go through the following webquest and answer all of the questions to have a greater understanding of this country's history yourself. After you have completed the questions write a summary to present to the other states in order to completely and thoroughly remind the states what this country is all about.

Process

  1. Study and answer the following questions.

  2. Create a rough draft of your summary.

  3. Have a partner review your rough draft.

  4. Make the appropriate corrections and write a final draft.

  5. Present your summary to the “States”

  6. Answer any questions the states may have to make sure they understand everything the USA has gone through.

Evaluation

This webquest is a group effort.  All grades given will be for the whole group. Groups will be graded on the following categories:

 

  1. Performance in Cooperative Group (10 points)

  2. Written Communication (20 points)

  3. Content and Knowledge (40 points)

  4. Correctness  (15 points)

  5. Completion (15 points)

 

Rubric

Emerging

Adequate

Sufficient

Advanced

Completion

Lack of effort with few questions answered.

0-5

Answering near half of the questions with little effort.

6-8

Answering all but five or less.



9-13

One or less questions not answered.


14-15

Correctness

Little or no questions are answered correctly.

0-5

Answering about half of webquest correctly.

6-8

Having less than ten questions that are incorrect

9-13

Having three  or less correct answers


14-15

Content and Knowledge

Did not gather the correct information, nor use the online resources

0-10

Attempted to address topic, but lacked depth of knowledge.



11-20

Addressed the topic well, but did not get all of the information



21-37

Showed a thorough understanding of the task



38-40

Written communication

Most all answers are misspelled or incorrectly written

0-4

A lot of misspelled answers and lack of grammar

5-13

Most of the answers are correct and written well, but still errors

14-18

All answers are written well and constructed with little to no error

19-20

Collaboration

Did not work with group to complete webquest.

0-2

Worked some with group to complete webquest.

3-5

Worked well with group to complete webquest.

6-8

Worked well with group to complete webquest and offered help whenever he/she could.

9-10

Conclusion

Our mission was to ensure that all states are familiar with the history of our country, and to give correct information to all people. This is what we are here for, and with the completion of this task force, we will not have to worry about a civil war. We can make America great again.